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1Present address: Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Classic predictions about sex change do not hold under all types of size advantage
Version of Record online: 28 SEP 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02108.x
© 2010 The Authors. Journal Compilation © 2010 European Society For Evolutionary Biology
Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Volume 23, Issue 11, pages 2432–2441, November 2010
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KAZANCIOĞLU, E. and ALONZO, S. H. (2010), Classic predictions about sex change do not hold under all types of size advantage. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 23: 2432–2441. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02108.x
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- Issue online: 21 OCT 2010
- Version of Record online: 28 SEP 2010
- Received 6 October 2009; revised 25 July 2010; accepted 2 August 2010
- evolutionarily stable strategy;
- game theory;
- life history evolution;
- models;
- reproductive strategies;
- sequential hermaphroditism;
Theory predicts that the 'size advantage' (rate of increase in male and female fitness with age or size) determines the direction and the timing of sex change in sequential hermaphrodites. Whereas the size advantage is generated by the mating system and would be expected to vary within and between species, the shape or form of the size advantage has rarely been estimated directly. Here, we ask whether theoretical predictions about the timing of sex change hold under different types of size advantage. We model two biological scenarios representing different processes generating the size advantage and find that different types of size advantage can produce patterns that qualitatively differ from classic predictions. Our results demonstrate that a good understanding of sequentially hermaphroditic mating systems, and specifically, a direct assessment of the processes underlying the size advantage is crucial to reliably predict and explain within-species patterns of the timing of sex change.

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Another year of Outside Lands flew by this weekend, and like it does every year, went out with its crown held high. Despite temperatures in the 50s and the festival's pricey location in the heart of $an Francisco, droves of music lovers flocked to Golden Gate Park for the 8th year in a row to dance the cold gray away. With a top notch lineup for music, food, beer, and wine, it's hard to imagine a single fan went home unsatisfied.
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As soon as I heard the guy selling flower crowns charmingly belittling his own product, I knew I was exactly where I was supposed to be. Despite the cool fog that hung over the weekend, taking in the towering eucalyptus trees that encase Golden Gate Park, I felt warm. Back at Outside Lands for my third year, it almost instantly felt like I was home again.
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Judging by the weather in San Francisco over the past few weeks, Outside Lands 2013 might be even chillier and grayer than it was last year. This year's event will take place August 9-11 on its usual turf of Golden Gate Park, and if the lineup is any indication, there's sure to be something for everyone.
A week removed from Outside Lands and I can still hear ringing in my ears, feel a subtle ache in my body, and play music sets over and over again in my mind. While my previous write-up mainly had commentary about the environment the festival was in, this article's focus is on the music.
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Comment America needs a workers government (Score 1, Insightful) 170
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For a soviet united states of America!
It seems to me that you are blathering uninformed bullshit. Absent-mindedly riffing on bourgeois ideological "common sense" is one thing that Americans are generally competent at.
It is interesting to note that even some bourgeois intellectuals are recognizing the bankruptcy of the capitalist system.
This is not socialism or communism.
The only way to communism is through the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat.
Democrats and Republicans, partner parties of bloody racist U.S. imperialism! Greens: wannabe imperialist pigs!
Break with all the bourgeois parties!
Forge a revolutionary workers party! Fight for a workers government!
Who cares about this shit? Let's talk about homelessness. Have you ever noticed the huge gulf separating the material prerequisites for ending homelessness, which exist in society now, and the pathetically inadequate "solutions" offered by the few capitalist politicians who even claim to be concerned about the problem?
The obstacle is private property. The dying capitalist system is choking the world. The workers must rule!
Toad apologists like you can't defend their party on the merits so they resort to innuendo and cheetoze.
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Toads, on the other hand, have something to hide.
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What choice you apologist?
Choice implies an alternative.
The alternative necessarily lies outside the ideal, imaginary realm of "discourse." It is a matter of class struggle.
The workers are making their choice, but it will not be free or "popular" until they prevail over the class enemy, whose weapons against this "choice" are not limited to newsprint, but also include prisons, aircraft carriers, and atom bombs.
Oh get off it. Since when has the content of the bourgeois press been directed by what "we" want?
The "free" press says what the bourgeoisie wants it to say.
Then it says that this is what "we" want.
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I'm writing a web page using Struts2.
My need is to show a row in a table only when an boolean attribute of an Action class (ie
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What is the best component to use when connecting to a Mysql 5.1.x in Delphi and why ?
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No other DB components could beat DevArt DB Components, they have MyDac and UniDac, both of them could use direct access to the database without requiring mysql client to be installed on the client machine, beside they offer fast performance and high quality compared to other components
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You should take a look at AnyDAC, supports MySQL and a lot of other databases.
Devart and microOLAP both offer components to access MySQL databases. Devart also have dbExpress drivers for dbExpress users.
Bob Swart has published Delphi for Win32 VCL Database Development on Lulu, if you need any help.
Don't forget that MySQL's client dll are GPL-ed, and if you are using it to connect to server, your app must be GPL-ed.
There are alternatives. Components that connect directly to MySQL skipping GPLed dlls. DevArt has such components (direct and dbx), and there are free components that can connect directily on tory.net.
I don't use MySQL, but when I can, I prefer dbExpress. It's unidirectional, which makes it pretty fast. Though I haven't done any benchmarking recently.
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"Toby Hudon" <gldm@...> wrote.. > See I think the different operations like filters and muxing should just be subsets of the message space. I have always been in complete agreement with this. Most data types that are passed to/from a codec/filter/muxer are identical. It always seemed kind of useless to develop three separate designs that do 98% of the same work. They all need things like: Timecode Duration Frame Colorspace Video Size Status (Error, Ready, etc) Maybe things like the CodecPrivate would only ever be passed to/from the codec and the muxer, but never to the filter. There is enough data that would be duplicated across all of the interfaces that seperating the API's would be silly. More code and more specs for nothing. Pamel
----- Original Message ----- From: Attila Kinali <attila@...> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:28:38 +0100 To: mplayer-dev-eng@... Subject: [UCI-Devel] Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Common Opensource codec API > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 10:09:44 +0100 > ChristianHJW <christian@...> wrote: > > > > You guys always want to keep things extremely simple and performant, and > > i have no idea why that is. Maybe you cant afford new PCs with > > state-of-the-art CPUs, and are running your boxes on AMD K6's or > > similar, dont know. I have a pretty old Pentium III system, only 800 > > MHz, with a 32 MB 4xAGP videocard, and even with crappy, bloated Windows > > + plus even more bloated, even more crappier matroska i was never ever > > close to have CPU performance problems. So, there seems to be a clear > > conflict of interests, for whatever reason. > > ROTFL > > Sorry, but that's just... > You know, a program needs to run as fast as possible, no matter what > it does, otherwise we end up waiting for the computer and justify > Wirth's law ("programs slow down faster than computers get faster"). > Beside, not everyone has the money to buy a top computer like you do. > You may dont know that computer components cost more (2-3 times more) > in countries like Turkey than they do here (not to mention that they > earn 10 times less). Your comment reminds me Marie Anntoinette's > "Why dont they eat cakes if they dont have bread ?". It has the same > ignorant and arrogant sound. > No, not everything needs to run as fast as possible if it has too many other tradeoffs. If it did then why aren't you hand coding everything in assembly instead of wasting your time with things like C? I can't speak for Matroska's design because I'm not all that familliar with it, but I designed my project with readibility of code and scalability of the algorithm and the entire thing including the interface isn't even 3100 lines if I remember right. Moore's law makes CPU speed effectively infinite given enough time. Programmer man-hours however, will always be finite. Designing systems that are easy to understand and extend makes them easier to go back and optimize or improve later. Speed can be important but writing it so it can be understood, even if you go back and comment that to put in a faster implementation, is often even more important. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
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Guide to Vegan Passover Seder
Get down with the Haggadah, gulp Kosher wine, find the afikoman, and enjoy grub from the old country.
One of Judaism's most important holidays, Passover, begins this week, commemorating the emancipation of the Israelites from enslavement under the pharaoh in ancient Egypt. According to the Torah, the prophet Moses beseeched the pharaoh to release the Jewish people from bondage. When the pharaoh refused, plagues of biblical—literally—proportions ensued. Drinking water turned into blood, people broke out into boils, and death befell every first-born son—except the Israelites, whose sons god spared. Passover celebrates the night The Angel of Death "passed over" their homes.
Today, the story is commemorated with an annual feast called the Passover Seder. Participants recline on pillows, chug wine, sing songs, play hide-the-afikoman (flat bread), read aloud from a personal Haggadah (religious text containing the story), and eat traditional food. The centerpiece of the evening is the Seder plate, which displays symbolic foods that helps tell the story of Passover. Since the holiday is all about the celebration of freedom and release from bondage, why not walk-the-walk with an ethical, vegan Seder plate?
The Seder Plate
Matzoh (unleavened flat bread)
This traditional cracker is the centerpiece of the Passover holiday. It symbolizes how quickly the Jews had to flee Egypt. In their haste to get the heck out of Cairo, they didn't have time for their bread rise before baking it. Thus, crunchy matzoh was born. No other breads or leavened grains may be consumed during Passover (a boon for you gluten-free folks). Be sure to snag egg-free matzoh.
Charoset (mixture of chopped nuts and apples, agave, spices, and wine)
Substitute agave for the traditional honey, and you have yourself some vegan charoset. Its texture resembles the mortar used to layer bricks, symbolizing the backbreaking work performed by the enslaved Israelites. Also, remind us—why are we only eating this delicious, succulent sweet at Passover?
Zeroa (fresh beet)
Although tradition calls for use of a shankbone to honor the sacrificial lamb, a red beet is scripturally permitted on the Seder plate—in fact, it's common for even omnivores to use this substitution instead.
Maror (bitter herbs)
Horseradish is typically used to symbolize the bitterness and anguish of slavery. (Matzoh slathered with maror—delicious!)
Beitzah (avocado or eggplant)
While the beitzah actually calls for a hard-boiled egg to symbolize fertility, try a silky avocado or a small, de-stemmed white eggplant.
Karpas (vegetable dipped into salt water)
Springtime parsley is dipped in salt water to represent the tears that the Jewish people shed during captivity under the pharaoh's rule.
The Haggadah also calls for four—yes, four—cups of wine to be consumed over the course of the Passover Seder ceremony. In Judaism, wine and religious observances go hand-in-hand. Be sure to find a vegan wine that's specifically marked with a P, denoting that it's Kosher-for-Passover.
The Seder ceremony can take several hours—but it's all good because you're getting drunk and lounging on the floor, anyway. Once it's complete, everybody is ready to chow down in a big way. Being vegan makes it easy to keep Kosher, but remember that no grains are permitted on the banquet table. The following fare can serve as a launch pad for developing your own, delectable Passover menu from the Mizrahi, Ashkenazi, and Sephardi traditions—it takes a village! Shabbat Shalom and Happy Passover!
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The Klein Oak Softball Booster Club will be hosting the 2nd annual Softball Camp at Burroughs Park June 7-9, 2011 from 9am to 1pm. All age and skill level softball players are invited to attend.
Coach Jav Vela will lead his staff of former and current Klein Oak Softball players during the 3 day camp, with all proceeds going to the KOSBC.
Jav has been coaching softball for over 25 years, leading the 1998 Panthers to the Class 5A Texas State Championship. He also coached the Texas Thunder of the Womens Pro Fastpitch League for 5 years, and was one of the original coaches to start the Impact Select Softball Program based in Spring, TX. Jav assists Mike Candrea, Head Coach of the University of Arizona and former Head Coach of Team USA with various softball camps held throughout the USA. Jav continues to be one of the most respected coaches throughout the softball community and has a unique ability to teach the game to aspiring athletes.
The camp will be set up in a manner to divide the attendees into smaller groups based on age and skill level. Each day will consist of various hitting and fielding techniques and drills, along with fundamentals key to excelling at the sport.
Please contact either Steve Gardner at 281-635-0112 or Chris Parris at 281-682-0723 if you have any questions regarding the camp. Go to www.kleinoaksoftball.com for more information. There, you can fill out a sign-up form and bring it to the camp with payment. A sign up form is also attached to this post. As of today, 6/4, fill out the form and bring it Tuesday morning. Also, contact Steve or Chris to let them know you will be attending.
Many thanks and we hope to see you at the camp!
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In a half-season defined by inconsistencies and instability, and in which very little has followed the punditry of training camp prognostications, at least a few elements of the game have held form.
And they have, in many instances and under often withering pressure with the outcomes of games more than just a footnote for them, performed extraordinarily well.
"It's simply a part of the game now," allowed San Francisco kicker Joe Nedney, whose five field goals accounted for all the 49ers' scoring in last week's 15-10 upset victory over Tampa Bay. "You turn on SportsCenter on Sunday night and just expect to see [a compilation] of big field goals. You're probably not going to be very successful [as a team] without a great kicker. And you're not going to be very successful as a kicker unless you can go out and make the big kicks. Because the bottom line is, with the way games are anymore, you're definitely going to get opportunities."
No matter the situation -- close games, one-sided affairs, short kicks or long field goal attempts -- kickers definitely are getting more chances in 2005 than in just about any other season in the modern history of the league.
Just for kicks, consider these numbers: Through the first eight weeks, there have been 442 field goal tries, or an average of 3.8 attempts per game. That represents the fifth-most field goal tries through the first 116 games of a season since 1978. If the current pace holds through the entire schedule, the 3.8 field goal attempts per game would be the most since the league averaged 3.87 attempts in 2001. There have been just five seasons since the 1970 merger in which the average field goal attempts per game topped 3.8, the record being 3.98 tries per game in 1995.
Projecting the current prolific pace of field goal tries through an entire season, there would be 975 attempts for 2005. There were just 870 attempts in 2004, the fewest under the current 256-game schedule and the lowest since 1994, when the schedule was 224 games.
Led by Neil Rackers of Arizona, who has been perfect on his 22 field goal attempts as one of the few bright spots for the Cardinals, kickers have converted at an 80.5 percent rate. That mark is actually down --though not by much -- from last season, when the leaguewide conversion rate was a record 80.8 percent. If the current field goal conversion rate holds, it would be the second-best in NFL history and would mark just the third time since the merger that the aggregate success mark topped 80 percent.
Certainly, the kicker carousel didn't spin as wildly this spring as in recent offseasons. Only eight franchises changed kickers in the offseason after the league had averaged nearly 10 switches the previous five years. And though it seems the first half of the season has been a kind of kicker revolving door, only four franchises have made changes since the start of this season, and all but one of those was because of injury.
The success this season is even more remarkable considering that some of the premier kickers in the league aren't getting many opportunities, have been injured or are having subpar years. Mike Vanderjagt of Indianapolis, the most accurate field goal kicker in NFL history, has a mere eight attempts in seven games. Three-time Pro Bowl performer David Akers of Philadelphia has been sidelined for a month by a torn hamstring. John Kasay of Carolina, Denver's Jason Elam and Adam Vinatieri of New England, who provided the winning field goal in two of the Patriots' three Super Bowl victories, all have conversion rates of under 70 percent.
Of course, Rackers has more than compensated for those uncharacteristic drop-offs.
But Rackers, who is on pace for a mind-boggling 50 field goals -- the single-season record, 39, is shared by Olindo Mare of Miami (1999) and St. Louis' Jeff Wilkins (2003) -- isn't the only kicker having a huge season. Including all 26 kickers with at least 10 attempts, 19 have converted at least 75 percent of their tries.
Of the dozen kickers who have registered at least 15 attempts to date, six have converted 80 percent or more of their tries and four of those have conversion rates of better than 85 percent. In addition to Rackers, who also leads the NFL in touchbacks on kickoffs (20), Phil Dawson of Cleveland (13-for-13) and Atlanta's Todd Peterson (10-for-10) have yet to miss this year. The New York Giants' Jay Feely has missed just once in 17 tries, for a 94.1 conversion rate, particularly impressive given that he spent the first three seasons of his career kicking in a domed stadium for home games. At Giants Stadium, he now faces some of the fiercest and trickiest wind currents of any league venue.
"Obviously, there are a lot of [kickers] who have found that comfort zone that we all talk about," said Rackers, who has converted 84.1 percent of his field goal tries since signing with the Cardinals midway through the 2003 season, after Cincinnati dumped him in favor of Shayne Graham. "Once you're there, man, you don't ever want to leave."
A six-year veteran, and playing in the final year of his contract, Rackers is eligible for unrestricted free agency next spring. If he chooses to leave the Valley of the Sun, he might be one of the most coveted players in the market. The free-agent pool for 2006 already is projected to be one of the leanest in recent years, and the increased profile for kickers is certain to enhance Rackers' value.
At 29, Rackers figures to have several productive seasons left, and he has become money in the bank on field goal attempts and a force on kickoffs, as well. He led the NFL in touchbacks in 2004, and his 20 this season is eight better than the next closest kicker. In fact, Rackers has accounted for nearly 15 percent of the league total of 149 touchbacks in the first six weeks. Although the Cardinals' increasing ineptitude means Rackers hasn't had to perform in the crucible some kickers face because they play for better teams and have to convert more meaningful kicks, this year nonetheless has demonstrated his mettle.
His 73 points represent 57.4 percent of the Arizona scoring, by far the highest quotient in the league. Rackers has made four or more field goals in three of seven games this season and converted six in the game against San Francisco in Mexico City on Oct. 2.
"You kind of run out of superlatives," acknowledged Arizona punter Scott Player, who is Rackers' holder on placement attempts. "What he's done is huge."
Then again, and taking nothing away from Rackers' performance, big numbers dominate in the kicker statistics this season. For instance, there have been 28 games in which teams combined for four field goal tries, 20 contests with five attempts, eight games with six, seven with seven and two in which the teams combined for eight attempts. Forty-three games, more than one-third of the contests played to date, have featured four or more conversions, and there have been 18 games with at least five field goals made.
Rackers' six field goals against the 49ers is the NFL's gaudiest performance so far, but there have been three occasions in which kickers -- Feely of the Giants, the 49ers' Nedney and Rian Lindell of Buffalo -- converted five field goals.
Said Feely, who converted five of six tries in the Giants' 36-0 romp over Washington last week: "Guys are getting a lot of kicks and making a lot of kicks."
One reason for the increase in field goal opportunities this year -- at the current rate, there would be 105 more attempts in 2005 than last season, a jump of 12 percent -- is the dip in red-zone efficiency. Offenses actually are scoring slightly more in the red zone in the first eight weeks of this season, 84.4 percent of the time compared with 82.7 percent at the same point last year, but more of the points are coming on field goals. This year, 38.4 percent of all red zone scores have come on field goals. Through the first eight weeks of the 2004 season, the rate was 35.0 percent. There are 13 more red-zone field goals at this point of the season than there were in the first eight weeks in 2004.
To suggest that red-zone inertia is the primary reason for the surge in field goals would be to diminish what the league's kickers have achieved in the first half of the season, however. After all, kickers aren't just converting red-zone chip shots.
The average field goal conversion in the first eight weeks was for 35.6 yards. The average miss was 43.5 yards, and less than 25 percent of the miscues leaguewide, 21 of 86 misses, were from under 40 yards. Rackers, who has 11 conversions of 40 yards or more and has three of 50-plus yards, has averaged 38.8 yards on his field goal successes.
"People are just 'zoned in' and are kicking the heck out of the ball," said Feely, signed by the Giants as a free agent in the spring after the team struggled at the kicker position the past few years. "You just don't see a lot of big misses."
Len Pasquarelli is a senior NFL writer for ESPN.com. To check out Len's chat archive, click here.


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Northport to vote on stop signs
Published: Saturday, October 21, 2006 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, October 20, 2006 at 11:00 p.m.
NORTHPORT | The Northport City Council on Monday will vote on the proposed installation of stop signs on Main Avenue at 13th Street.
If approved, the stop signs will create a four-way-stop intersection. It would be third such intersection created in the downtown area this fall and the second on Main Avenue in the last two months. The other stop signs, installed at Twin Manor and Main, were approved to reduce cut-through traffic.
The council will meet at 6 p.m. Monday at the Northport City Hall, 3500 McFarland Boulevard.
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I'd like to take this opportunity to extend my heartfelt congratulations to Carlson EVP of Development Nancy Johnson, who officially became the American Hotel & Lodging As- sociation's (AH&LA) 2012 Chair last month during a black tie dinner at New York's Mandarin Oriental.
Nancy and I met in 2001 when she was the director of development of Carlson's select-service Country Inn & Suites (CI&S) by Carlson brand, which had just been launched. It was Johnson, along with then CI&S president Paul Kirwin (now president & CEO of AmericInn), who were the driving forces behind getting the newly formed brand off the ground. Today, there are more than 500 CI&S hotels around the world, and Johnson leads the Americas development effort for CI&S, Park Inn by Radisson and Park Plaza.
I will always remember the respect Nancy showed me a decade ago when I was a regional sales manager responsible for selling her advertising in HOTEL BUSINESS®. The bottom line is that she didn't always buy what I was selling. However, she was respectful, always making an effort to have me feel as if I were the only person in the room. It comes as absolutely no surprise to me when I hear that this is how she treats everyone. This undoubtedly has been one of the secrets to her success over the years, and in my opinion, is one of the traits of a true leader.
Using this space to congratulate Nancy also allows me to discuss are still in a tiny minority. In this year's Fortune 500, there are only 18 women CEOs. It should be 50/50, and some day it will be. But only if we as leaders—male and female—do something about it. We can not do anything about other industries, but we can do something about our own."
I'm sure it was just a coinci- dence, but there was certainly a bit of irony that the same week Nancy was named the association's Chair, the AH&LA released a new video on the importance of diversity to the lodging industry. The seven-and-a-half minute video, produced by the Association's multicultural & diversity council, features seven prominent CEOs highlighting the importance of diversity to their companies. The comments emphasize the legitimate busi- ness reasons for promoting di- versity among their employees, vendors and guests.
Although, as an industry, many are beginning to experience bet- ter times, there are still plenty facing rough times out there. The AH&LA will be well served by Nancy Johnson, who will un- doubtedly share her development and operational expertise with any hotelier in need, whether they are an AH&LA member or not.That's just her style.
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Beautiful Houses: Pure White Interior Design
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This week we will show you the elegant interiors of a house in Almuñecar, Granada, Spain a project by Susanna Cots. The interior design of this house is really classy and elegant. The details, materials and combinations of white and wood, white and black, white and pastels, deliver a place that gets our attention by its refined look, beauty and simplicity. This is certainly a great place to live.
Description from the architects: Pure white. This is the name we gave to this interior design project in which white was, of course, the starring colour. White as the sum of all the colours of light was the starting point of the project: a house on the top of a cliff, in front of the sea, totally invaded by natural light.
Make sure to check out Susanna Cots website for further inspiring projects. See you next week :)
We found this house at Contemporist.
Photos by Mauricio Fuertes.
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